Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Device with a respirator and a humidifier
    Patent number: 8100124
    Abstract: A device with a respirator (1) and with a humidifier (11) for breathing gas. Breathing gas humidification is adapted to the different operating states of the respirator (1). A connection (13) is provided for bidirectional data transmission between the control and operating unit (8) of the respirator (1) and the control and operating unit (9) of the humidifier (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Becker, Karsten Dieckmann, Jochim Koch, Thomas Krüger, Hans-Wilhelm Steen
  • Core drill
    Patent number: 8100612
    Abstract: To provide a user-friendly core drill which, when forming a large-diameter cut hole by the core drill with respect to an object to be drilled, such as concrete, is able to easily form, for example, a chamfered portion or a countersunk portion with respect to an opening end portion of the cut hole. In a core drill comprising a base body including a shank and a drill core body including a drill cutting blade, a connection opening portion of the drill core body being attached to the base body, the connection opening portion of the drill core body is provided with a concave portion forming member including a large-diameter hole cutting blade, and the large-diameter hole cutting blade is provided outside the drill cutting blade in a radial direction of the connection opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Miyanaga
    Inventor: Masaaki Miyanaga
  • Self-rescuer training device
    Patent number: 8100696
    Abstract: A training device for a self-rescuer is improved such that practical breathing parameters will become established. A granular filling of a material (7) is used that binds water molecules and generated heat of adsorption or heat of absorption in the process instead of an oxygen-releasing chemical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Horst Wezurek, Miriam Dittrich
  • Speech recognition for determining if a user has correctly read a target sentence string
    Patent number: 8103503
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a user speech input to determine whether the user has correctly read a target sentence string are provided. One disclosed method may include receiving a sentence array including component words of the target sentence string and processing the sentence array to generate a symbolic representation of the target sentence string. The symbolic representation may include a subset of words selected from the component words of the target sentence string, having fewer words than the sentence array. The method may include processing user speech input to recognize in the user speech input each of the words in the subset of words in the symbolic representation of the target sentence string. The method may further include, upon recognizing the subset of words, making a determination that the user has correctly read the target sentence string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Duncan
  • Dual-inlet supercharger for EGR flow control
    Patent number: 8099957
    Abstract: A supercharger compressor includes a plurality of rotors rotatably mounted in a housing, a first inlet for air, a second inlet for recirculated exhaust gas, and a flow separator. The flow separator is arranged interior the housing and configured to form a slideable seal with at least one rotor of the plurality of rotors, the slideable seal fluidically isolating the first inlet from the second inlet, at least in part, and retarding pressure equalization therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brad Alan Boyer, Eric Warren Curtis
  • Dynamic updating of firewall parameters
    Patent number: 8099774
    Abstract: The dynamic updating of firewall parameters is described. One exemplary embodiment includes receiving a policy rule that includes a reference to a predefined container that specifies a permissible value range of at least one firewall parameter allowable under the policy rule, receiving a firewall parameter value, and populating the predefined container with the firewall parameter value if the firewall parameter value is within the permissible value range, thereby updating the policy rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Abzarian, Gerardo Diaz Cuellar, Eran Yariv
  • Radio frequency excited gas laser source
    Patent number: 8098705
    Abstract: There is described a gas laser comprising a pair of substantially mutually parallel and opposed electrodes (17, 37), between which a volume is defined containing a gas in which said electrodes generate a discharge. At opposed ends of the electrodes, in said volume, mirrors (65) are arranged to define a resonant cavity. The electrodes form an integral part of two portions (5, 7) of a sealed housing (1), containing the gas and in which the mirrors and the electrodes are housed. The two portions (5, 7) forming the housing are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: EL. EN. S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gabriele Clementi, Leonardo Masotti, Alberto Severi
  • Reduction of NOx trap at engine shutoff
    Patent number: 8096111
    Abstract: The reduction of a NOx trap upon engine shutdown is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises adjusting a timing of creating a reductive environment in the exhaust conduit upstream of the lean NOx trap based upon the determined engine stop position. The creation of a reductive environment in the exhaust conduit upstream of the lean NOx trap may help to at least partially reactivate the lean NOx trap during engine shutoff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John William Hoard, Lifeng Xu, Robert Walter McCabe, Karen Marie Adams
  • Protecting against incorrect battery polarity
    Patent number: 8097355
    Abstract: Embodiments of battery holders with dual-contact assemblies are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a battery holder with a substrate and a spring dual-contact assembly, wherein the spring dual-contact assembly comprises a positive contact configured to contact a positive terminal of a battery positioned in the battery holder with the positive terminal oriented toward the spring dual-contact assembly and a negative contact configured to contact a negative terminal of a battery positioned in the battery holder with the negative terminal oriented toward the spring dual-contact assembly. The positive and negative contacts are coupled to an insulator configured to hold the positive contact and negative contact in a fixed relation to one another. Further, one or more cantilever wire springs hold the negative contact, positive contact and insulator in a resiliently displaceable relationship to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Glen C Larsen
  • Transmission scheduling for multi-stroke engine
    Patent number: 8096920
    Abstract: An approach is described that coordinates transmission shifting with changing between two-stroke and four-stroke combustion to improve shift and drive performance. In one example, responsive to a driver tip-in, the system may transition the engine to a two-stroke combustion mode from the four-stroke mode and increase a transmission gear ratio in order to avoid transmission shifts during the subsequent acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, David Karl Bidner
  • Thermotherapy device with an inflatable hood
    Patent number: 8096936
    Abstract: A thermotherapy device with a reclining surface and with an inflatable hood for covering the reclining surface. The inflatable hood (1) is provided with a plurality of inflatable, tubular support elements (3) with plastic films (2) arranged between them, which tenter one or more surfaces between the support elements (3) in the inflated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbH
    Inventor: Arthur Kuo
  • Method and system for controlling fuel usage
    Patent number: 8096283
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving fluid usage while addressing knock by adjusting the use of spark retard and direct injection of a fluid based on engine operating conditions and the composition of the injected fluid. One or more engine parameters, such as EGR, VCT, boost, throttle position, are coordinated with the direct injection to reduce torque and EGR transients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, John Nelson, Thomas G. Leone
  • Radio frequency detection system for a medical device and process
    Patent number: 8099044
    Abstract: A radio frequency detection system is provided that includes at least two radio frequency detection devices, which have an antenna each with a detection range for a radio frequency identification and detect the radio frequency identification information provided in the detection range. The radio frequency detection system is designed to attenuate a detection range of a detecting radio frequency detection device in the detection range of the at least one other radio frequency detection device by means of a compensation member such that the radio frequency identification cannot be detected by the detecting radio frequency detection device in the detection area of the at least one other radio frequency detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Schermeier, Markus Steeger
  • Visual feedback in electronic entertainment system
    Patent number: 8098831
    Abstract: The presentation of visual feedback in an electronic entertainment system is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment relates to a method of providing user feedback in an electronic entertainment system, wherein the method comprises inviting an input from a user, receiving a user input via a hand-held remote input device, performing a comparison of the user input received to an expected input, assigning a rating to the user input received based upon the comparison to the expected input, and adjusting light emitted by one or more lights sources on the input device based upon the rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Vasco Rubio, Eric Filer, Loren Douglas Reas, Dennis W Tom
  • Method and device to prepare tubular winding cores
    Patent number: 8096494
    Abstract: The device to position tubular winding cores on a common supporting and rotating shaft comprises: supporting members for said shafts AS and gripping and handling members 23A, 23B of the winding cores A parallel to the axis of said shaft AS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: A. Celli Nonwovens S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giulio Simonelli, Franco Lazzerini
  • Methods and systems for emission system control
    Patent number: 8096125
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a turbocharged engine including a particulate filter positioned upstream of a turbocharger turbine, a catalyst positioned downstream of the turbine, and an EGR passage coupled between an engine exhaust and engine intake. In one example, the method comprises, diverting exhaust gas from downstream of the filter to the engine intake via the EGR passage, and adjusting an amount of diverted exhaust gas based on filter operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hepburn, William Charles Ruona, Brien Lloyd Fulton, Gopichandra Surnilla, Eric Matthew Kurtz
  • Method and system for pre-ignition control
    Patent number: 8095297
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder-to-cylinder imbalances in the incidence of pre-ignition and/or knock. Engine cylinders are fueled based on each cylinder's pre-ignition count to balance the incidence of pre-ignition in each cylinder. The fueling is adjusted to maintain engine exhaust at stoichiometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, Robert Sarow Baskins
  • Chair
    Patent number: D651823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Dauphin Entwicklungs-u. Beteiligungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Zünd, Rüdiger Schaack
  • Chair
    Patent number: D652647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Dauphin Entwicklungs-u. Beteiligungs-GmBH
    Inventor: Rüdiger Schaack
  • Chair-back
    Patent number: D652658
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Dauphin Entwicklungs-u. Beteiligungs-GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Figueroa